Earth Day Is Every Day! It’s fine to have a special day to celebrate our one and only home, Planet Earth. It’s even more important that we celebrate, protect, honour and pay attention to her not just on this one, but every day! It does seem, praise be, that this awareness is growing and expanding...

The experience of Self-loathing is the pits! Well do I know. ‘Self-loathing is that underlying feeling that we are just not good: not good enough, not good at this, not good at that, not good at … . It can be subtle, we may …compare ourselves to others,…find fault with ourselves, put ourselves down, we may...

What does it mean to be Living in the Middle? Quite a bit, actually. For some, it’s easy and tempting, these days and at our age (!), to go with the whiny, struggling, negative, ain’t it awful, and gosh, it’s hard… Others choose to take a spiritual bypass, say it’s all just ephemeral anyway, and...

Keeping An Open Heart — What could be a more appropriate message for Valentine’s Day than Keeping An Open Heart? But how do we keep an open heart? What does it even mean? I know for sure that it’s a biggie for me. Backing up a little: you probably already know from previous blogs,...

Among philosophers and physicists is a theory that the fundamental nature of reality is energy. On a more day-to-day level, this would mean that our words, yes, even our thoughts are energy too. When I first read this on the Daily Om, by Madison Taylor, it startled me. Our words, our thoughts, are energy? Even if it’s...